Anubis.
Anubis.
The article discusses Anubis, a hybrid art project and network countermeasure that uses a 'proof-of-work' system, similar to Bitcoin mining, to block AI crawlers from accessing websites. The author, Tavis Ormandy, critiques Anubis's effectiveness, arguing that it poses a trivial challenge for AI vendors with vast compute resources but significantly hinders legitimate human users with limited access to compute. He demonstrates how to bypass the system by mining a token and obtaining an auth cookie, highlighting the system's flaws and questioning its overall utility in protecting web resources.
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the anime cat girls have indeed interrupted a number of my internet work, including that on codeberg.
the cost analysis fun. it might play out too, but right now, sites using Anubis hav reported a drop in spam crawlers. the increased to download seems to be having the impact, not the cost.
with that said, it's a cat and mouse game and the scales will tip. it's unclear how much longer Anubis will be around.
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